Guadaloupe or Martinico alone would have given us material aid; much in the way of duties, much in the way of trade and navigation.

A good ministry would have considered how a renewal of the _Assiento_ might have been obtained.

We had as much right to ask it at the treaty of Paris as at the treaty of Utrecht.

We had incomparably more in our hands to purchase it.

Floods of treasure would have poured into this kingdom from such a source; and, under proper management, no small part of it would have taken a public direction, and have fructified an exhausted exchequer.
If this gentleman's hero of finance, instead of flying from a treaty, which, though he now defends, he could not approve, and would not oppose; if he, instead of shifting into an office, which removed him from the manufacture of the treaty, had, by his credit with the then great director, acquired for us these, or any of these, objects, the possession of Guadaloupe or Martinico, or the renewal of the _Assiento_, he might have held his head high in his country; because he would have performed real service; ten thousand times more real service, than all the economy of which this writer is perpetually talking, or all the little tricks of finance which the expertest juggler of the treasury can practise, could amount to in a thousand years.